Anyone heading in to Leicester on Saturday (June 18th 2011) may have been forgiven for thinking they were on the set of an apocalypse movie.

It all started when a 'concerned citizen' – who had obviously been watching The Walking Dead and thinking it was a documentary – wrote to the council to ask if the city would be prepared for an attack by the undead.

Leicester City Council's Lynn Wyeth kindly wrote back to the unnamed person and admitted the conurbation does not